Peleg and Eunice White House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 2297 Dixon Road, Ledyard, 13026
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. building
Town. Ledyard town
National Register reference number. 100012063 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

51 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Peleg and Eunice White House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Peleg and Eunice White House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Aurora Well	Salt	Past Producer
	J.C.Mahaney Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ledyard, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2017	Flash Flood	Ledyard	$725,000	Widespread flash flooding of most creeks and urbanized areas occurred throughout the town of Venice. Culverts and roads were washed out in several locations. Some residences and businesses experienced flooding.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ledyard	$500,000	Thunderstorms caused scattered straight line wind damage across a large area of southern Cayuga County. About 20 to 30 structures sustained at least minor damage. The towns affected were Ledyard, Venice, Scipio, Genoa, and Moravia. The most significant damage was a roof that was ripped off a home in Poplar Ridge (town of Venice) and damage to several barns and silos in Venice, Venice Center, and Scipio. Numerous trees were also snapped off or uprooted in these areas. A tornado also occurred at about the same time in the southeast corner of Scipio Township.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ledyard	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ledyard	-	Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Sheldrake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Sheldrake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sheldrake quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jethro Wood House	0.8 miles	1966
Augustus Howland House	2.1 miles	2008
North Street Friends Meetinghouse	2.4 miles	2005
Howland Cobblestone Store	2.4 miles	1994
Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District	2.5 miles	2008
Slocum and Hannah Howland House	2.5 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012063 in Record Group 79.
Cayuga County	All 71 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.